Psalms 44:23
Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
In Context
22Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
24Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Cross References
Psalms 12:5Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.
Psalms 44:9But now thou have cast off, and brought us to dishonor, and go not forth with our armies.
Psalms 74:1O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalms 78:65Then LORD awoke as out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of LORD. Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:18-26
Israel's Appeal to God. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the… Read the whole commentary →